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Originally Posted by LadyShea
Don't you think that still comes back to the "ick" factor? "I don't get it, I don't like it, so it just ain't right" kinda thing?
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Maybe there's some of that still, but when people endorse civil unions, I tend to interpret it as more circular reasoning than anything else. Like the DARE program's "Drugs are bad because they're illegal. Drugs are illegal because they're bad" arguments, or when people complain that new words are being added to some dictionary because they're not real words because they're not in the dictionary.
In fact, all too often, people making this argument cite dictionary definitions to prove that marriage is exclusive to a man and a woman. If they actually do support civil unions that are equivalent to the marriage contract in every way except title, it would almost have to be a semantic argument, it seems.
That's just my interpretation, though. I can't pretend to actually understand it, so you may well be right.